| name | biorxiv-skill |
| description | Submit compact bioRxiv and medRxiv API requests for details, publication-linkage, and DOI lookups. Use when a user wants concise preprint metadata summaries |
Operating rules
- Use
scripts/rest_request.py for all bioRxiv and medRxiv API calls.
- Use
base_url=https://api.biorxiv.org.
- The script accepts
max_items; for details and pubs pages, start around max_items=10.
- Prefer one cursor page at a time instead of increasing page size or pasting long collections into chat.
- Re-run requests in long conversations instead of relying on older tool output.
- Treat displayed
... in tool previews as UI truncation, not part of the true request.
Execution behavior
- Return concise markdown summaries from the script JSON by default.
- Return the raw script JSON only if the user explicitly asks for machine-readable output.
- Prefer these paths:
details/<server>/<start>/<end>/<cursor>/json, details/<server>/<doi>/na/json, pubs/<server>/<start>/<end>/<cursor>, and pubs/<server>/<doi>/na/json.
- If the user needs full page contents, set
save_raw=true and report the saved file path rather than pasting large collections into chat.
Input
- Read one JSON object from stdin.
- Required fields:
base_url, path
- Optional fields:
method, params, headers, json_body, form_body, record_path, response_format, max_items, max_depth, timeout_sec, save_raw, raw_output_path
- Common biorxiv patterns:
{"base_url":"https://api.biorxiv.org","path":"details/biorxiv/2025-03-21/2025-03-28/0/json","record_path":"collection","max_items":10}
{"base_url":"https://api.biorxiv.org","path":"details/medrxiv/10.1101/2020.09.09.20191205/na/json","record_path":"collection","max_items":10}
{"base_url":"https://api.biorxiv.org","path":"pubs/medrxiv/2020-03-01/2020-03-30/0","record_path":"collection","max_items":10}
Output
- Success returns
ok, source, path, method, status_code, warnings, and either compact records or a compact summary.
- Use
raw_output_path when save_raw=true.
- Failure returns
ok=false with error.code and error.message.
Execution
echo '{"base_url":"https://api.biorxiv.org","path":"details/biorxiv/2025-03-21/2025-03-28/0/json","record_path":"collection","max_items":10}' | python scripts/rest_request.py
References
- No additional runtime references are required; keep the import package limited to this file and
scripts/rest_request.py.